Cmentarz przy ul. Lwowskiej w Chełmie

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Cemetery at ul. Lwowska in Chełm - a necropolis in Chełm, originally Catholic, divided into Roman Catholic and Uniate quarters, then Catholic-Orthodox. In its area there are also graves of Polish soldiers and January insurgents. [source: Wikipedia, 3549983]

History

The Catholic cemetery in Chełm was founded in 1802 by order of the Austrian authorities, which ordered the necropolis to be built outside the city buildings and the elimination of older cemeteries located directly at the temple buildings. Necropolis at ul. Lwowska occupied the land of a Uniate hospital. The central point of the cemetery was a brick chapel funded by Ignacy Bielski, the owner of the Uher estate [http://www.itchelm.pl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=117&Itemid=84 Chełm Cemeteries] . The cemetery was intended for followers of Roman Catholic and Uniate rite. After the liquidation of the Uniate diocese of Chełm, the Uniate quarters were renamed Orthodox. At the same time, the cemetery was expanded southwards, with the land bought from Karol Radziszewski and Józef Skibiński . There are two chapels on the cemetery - the chapel of Ignacy Bielski from the beginning of the 19th century and the Zajdler chapel, built in 1908 in the Neo-Gothic style by the notary Władysław Zajdler. Also survived numerous tombstones from the nineteenth century, including the grave of Sebastian Czaplic from 1832, the tombstone of colonel Tadeusz Zawistowski from 1855, Henryka Niemirowska from 1841 and Karolina Lechicka from 1880 . In the cemetery there are also tombstones of Polish soldiers who died during the Polish-Bolshevik war, graves of Polish participants of World War II and the cross of memory of the January insurgents, under which probably the remains of those fighting in the battle of Depułtycze were buried . Chelm - Cemetery at ul. Lwowska.jpg [source: Wikipedia, 3549983]